[wp-hackers] Anti spam idea

[Ian Knox]

What you're referring to is known as: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

It has already been done:
http://www.gudlyf.com/index.php?p=376

It generally works fine, but some people prefer not to force their readers
to jump through hoops just to post comments.


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Ian 

-----Original Message-----
From: hackers-bounces at wordpress.org [mailto:hackers-bounces at wordpress.org]
On Behalf Of Ethan King
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:17 PM
To: hackers at wordpress.org
Subject: [wp-hackers] Anti spam idea

It seems like is should be possible for WP to impliment the same kind
of anti automation that sites like Yahoo! use.  We could create a
image for each letter in the latin (english) alphabet and number 1-10
that are manipulated to make if very difficult for a spam posting
program to read.

That way the person making the comment only has to enter the 6
charater "code" to make the post.  The benefits are no moderation and
no keywords.

I am attaching an example picture from Yahoo!

Just a thought,
-Ethan